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ALBUMS CHART: 1980s.
As rock music became more sophisticated and global, the Eighties saw more common ground between what charted here and in the rest of the west and the emergence of superstars such as Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Jackson had been plying his trade since his childhood in the Sixties, and had delivered the Off The Wall album just as the Seventies came to an end, but he stepped up his game in the Eighties and crafted two albums stuffed with hit singles - Thriller and Bad.
Madonna, born just 13 days before Jacko in 1958, remained relatively obscure ...
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